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Definition of Jurisdictions
1. jurisdiction [n] - See also: jurisdiction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jurisdictions
Literary usage of Jurisdictions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1890)
"On their own lands jurisdictions, fae nobles handed down from father to son their
heritable jurisdictions, the right of judging criminals. ..."
2. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1907)
"And again, admitting that the King's courts are open to all his subjects within
their respective jurisdictions, we may ask whether the Crown in its own ..."
3. The Lord Advocates of Scotland from the Close of the Fifteenth Century to by George William Thomson Omond (1883)
"The Heritable jurisdictions had long been a source of weakness to the Executive;
and it was now evident that the power of administering justice must no ..."
4. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1876)
"HE refinement in cruelty of the punishments inflicted prior to the abolition of
Heritable jurisdictions was, to a great extent, ascribable to the ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"CONFLICTING jurisdictions. THE principal source of strife between the Inquisition
and the other authorities arose from its claim to exclusive competence in ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"An admission of indebtedness though implying no promise to pay is still sufficient
in some jurisdictions. In a few States the courts have construed local ..."
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